Business: Return Postage

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 An agent requested I send the my complete manuscript and a copy of my last two books to her for representation consideration. Do I include return postage to cover just a reply–an SASE–or postage to cover returning the books, too?...

Business: Reserves against Returns

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Q. Could you please explain “reserves against returns?” A. Sure. I’m not an attorney, but writer-to-writer, I’ll be glad to discuss this. First let’s look at what reserves and returns are in relation to...

Craft: Query Letter

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Q. I am about to send out a query letter to several publishers. I did do one but it may not have been correct. Can you please email me a copy of one that was done correctly so that I can do it in the same way? A. I don’t have one handy I...

Craft: Rule of Three

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 I’m not sure who originally coined the phrase, Rule of Three, but odds are it was John Gardner in The Art of Fiction (I just ordered my fourth copy of that book; can’t read through all the highlighted parts anymore in the first...

Business: Royalties

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Q. At my writing group meeting, an author mentioned a sell-through on her book. It sounded important, but I’ve never heard the term. What is a sell-through? A. The short answer: sell-through is the percentage ratio of the number of units...

Business: Romance Novels–A National Resource

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Let’s celebrate the magic of books! Books are magical. They must be. What else could explain our reading words on a page and those words firing our imaginations, transporting us into living an adventure being carried out in a novel’s pages?...
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